Materials science: Metal turned to glass
Abstract
In order to form a glass by cooling a liquid, the normal process of solid crystallization must be bypassed. Achieving that for a pure metal had seemed impossible - until pressure was applied to liquid germanium.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- August 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1038/448758a
- Bibcode:
- 2007Natur.448..758T